SQL Server 2005 troubles.

I was using xml to previously store the blog data. I have recently configured a SQL Server database to store the blog data. With the xml data, the blog seems to show up fine. I have been able to connect to my database and now the blog doesnt
show up at all, rather it shows some weird characters. Here is a short snippet of what it has been returning:

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I don't know if this is an encoding issue or what but I would really like someone to help me in figureing out what the problem could be. Thank you in advance!